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(zhù hǎo) - best wishes (a letter or message sign-off) in Mandarin

zhùhǎo

Traditional: 祝好

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Translation

best wishes (a letter or message sign-off)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 祝

Stroke order for 好

Examples

Best wishes, looking forward to seeing you again soon.

I'll end the letter here, best wishes!

The teacher wrote at the end of the letter, "best wishes."

Best wishes, may your work go smoothly.

At the end of the email he only wrote the two words "best wishes."

祝好 (zhù hǎo) is a short sign-off used at the end of a letter, email, or message, roughly equivalent to "best wishes" or "kind regards" in English correspondence. 祝 (zhù) means "to wish (someone well)", the same character that opens 祝你好运 (zhù nǐ hǎo yùn, "good luck") and 祝你生日快乐 (zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè, "happy birthday").

It is a closing formula, not a spoken greeting: you would write 祝好 (zhù hǎo) at the bottom of a message but would not say it to someone's face on meeting them.

Note that AQA's own gloss for this entry ("best wishes/good luck") slightly overstates the "good luck" sense - 祝好 (zhù hǎo) on its own reads as a polite sign-off, not a wish of luck for a specific event. For "good luck" proper, 祝你好运 (zhù nǐ hǎo yùn) or 加油 (jiā yóu, "keep it up") are the natural choices.

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This word is part of lesson 109.